Zihua Li

resume@zihua.li

About

Engineering leader with a track record of building high-performance teams and architecting scalable systems.

Publications

Redis Beginner's Guide
  1. Posts & Telecom Press2013

Authored China's first comprehensive Redis book.

Reached #1 in Amazon's database category during its launch week with over 30K copies sold.

Personal Projects

ioredis
github.com/luin/ioredis
Leading Node.js Redis client acquired by Redis Ltd. in 2023. 38M+ monthly downloads and 15K+ GitHub stars.
Medis
github.com/luin/medis
Modern Redis GUI with 12K+ GitHub stars, generating over 1M CNY in revenue.
Readability
github.com/luin/readability
Turns web pages into clean, readable content with 2.5K+ GitHub stars.
Kuber
bit.ly/4glfqZK
Native iOS client for Kubernetes.

Education

Beihang University
  1. B.S. in Software Engineering2009 ~ 2013
Co-founded a startup during university, securing two rounds of seed funding.

Work Experience

San Francisco, CA
  1. Engineering Lead2019 ~ 2025

Drove frontend architecture and technical strategy for a distributed engineering team spanning the US and Europe.

Core maintainer of Quill.js (46K+ GitHub stars), led the Quill 2.0 release. Pioneered OT-based collaborative editing for two-dimensional tables.

Built AI-powered auto-completion and custom spell-checking algorithms for the editor, delivering real-time writing assistance.

Partnered with design to establish and evolve a scalable design system, prioritizing accessibility and accelerating feature delivery across teams.

Optimized GraphQL architecture for large-scale React applications, reducing data over-fetching and improving query performance.

Beijing, China
  1. CTO2015 ~ 2019

Led a 100+ engineer technical organization spanning frontend, backend, SRE, mobile, and QA teams.

Built and scaled the engineering team from 15 to 100+ across two cities, implementing targeted recruiting strategies to attract top-tier talent. Established performance standards and cultivated a self-driven engineering culture that emphasized ownership and innovation.

Maintained hands-on technical contributions in real-time collaborative editing, system architecture, and cross-platform development (Electron, Web, React Native).

Hangzhou, China
  1. Senior Engineer2014 ~ 2015
Tokyo, Japan
  1. Senior Full-Stack Engineer2013 ~ 2014